Question About Panning Effects

[MondoLikeMetal]

There are alot of threads in this forum about panning assingments for instruments, but what about the instrument's effects. Let's say i had a lead guitar at 70% left, and a harmonizing lead guitar 70%. right. Would the reverb/delay for each guitar stay panned with it's source, put in the middle, or panned to the other side of the source?

Lead guitar 1 -- 70% left, it's effects 70% right
Lead guitar 2 -- 70% right, it's effects 70% left

In the above example, it seems like the effects would stand out better for each guitar.

Then how about effects that use stereo, like chorus and ping pong delay. Where do you position these effects?

 

[sk8a123]

a LOT of this is personal preference.

 

[pikachu69]

Like anything to do with mixing, it is completely personal preference.
I try not to use any effects on vox and guitar until the mix is almost complete, or at least until I have the overall volume/frequency balance right of the most important elements of the mix. I will then decide what I think each part needs/wants and will dial it in. If it is delay with a longer tail normally sit with pan pot and slider in hand and just move it about until I find a place for it. It should only take a few moments to find the sweet spot but it will almost always be different for every mix you do.

 

[mburton21]

As already stated, there is much personal preference here.

However, I like to use one reverb bus for nearly everything, and I almost never use delay. When I do, say for leads, then it's the same: one aux bus and create sends to it.

 

[BlackwingGabriel]

When you pan reverb sends, you should know what the algorithm used by the reverb. There are true stereo, pararell & mono to stereo reverbs. Each give different response when they're panned.